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The Gordian Division #2
The Valkyrie Protocol
UNTANGLE THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. A NEW NOVEL IN THE WORLD OF THE BEST-SELLING THE GORDIAN PROTOCOL
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have made a shocking discovery out in the unknown reaches of the multiverse. They've stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can figure out what caused this calamity other than it had something to do with reckless time travel.
The Kleio speeds back to their home universe of SysGov with this dire report, but an audacious plan is put into effect before they arrive. Old colleagues of Raibert's from the Antiquities Rescue Trust, together with a version of Samuel Pepys transplanted from the 17th century into the 30th, have proposed an expedition into the past. Their goal? To branch the timeline by preventing the Plague of Justinian, one of the worst pandemics in human history.
Meanwhile, SysGov's multiverse neighbor, the xenophobic Admin, is stirring. While their ambassadors put on a friendly show, the Admin is amassing a fleet of advanced, heavily armed time machines with SysGov firmly in the crosshairs.
Time is running out for Raibert and his team. But the crew of the Kleio won't go down without a fight, no matter where--or when—the threat to their home comes from.
About prequel The Gordian Protocol:
“Tom Clancy-esque exposition of technical details . . . absurd humor and bloody action. Echoes of Robert Heinlein . . . lots of exploding temporal spaceships and bodies . . . action-packed . . .” —Booklist
“[A] fun and thrilling standalone from Weber and Holo. . . . Time travel enthusiasts will enjoy the moral dilemmas, nonstop action, and crisp writing.”—Publishers Weekly
About David Weber:
“[A] balanced mix of interstellar intrigue, counterespionage, and epic fleet action . . . with all the hard- and software details and tactical proficiency that Weber delivers like no one else; along with a large cast of well-developed, believable characters, giving each clash of fleets emotional weight.”—Booklist
“[M]oves . . . as inexorably as the Star Kingdom’s Grand Fleet, commanded by series protagonist Honor Harrington. . . . Weber is the Tom Clancy of science fiction. . . . His fans will relish this latest installment. . . .”—Publishers Weekly
“This entry is just as exciting as Weber’s initial offering. . . . The result is a fast-paced and action-packed story that follows [our characters] as they move from reaction to command of the situation. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.”—The Galveston County Daily News
“Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel . . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.”—Publishers Weekly
“This latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point . . . . Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.”—Booklist
“[E]verything you could want in a heroine. . . . Excellent . . . plenty of action.”—Science Fiction Age
“Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!”—Anne McCaffrey
“Compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.”—Locus
“Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .”—Publishers Weekly
About Jacob Holo:
"An entertaining sci-fi action novel with light overtones of dystopian and political thrillers."—Kirkus on The Dragons of Jupiter
"Thrilling . . . sci-fi adventure."—Kirkus on Time Reavers
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have made a shocking discovery out in the unknown reaches of the multiverse. They've stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can figure out what caused this calamity other than it had something to do with reckless time travel.
The Kleio speeds back to their home universe of SysGov with this dire report, but an audacious plan is put into effect before they arrive. Old colleagues of Raibert's from the Antiquities Rescue Trust, together with a version of Samuel Pepys transplanted from the 17th century into the 30th, have proposed an expedition into the past. Their goal? To branch the timeline by preventing the Plague of Justinian, one of the worst pandemics in human history.
Meanwhile, SysGov's multiverse neighbor, the xenophobic Admin, is stirring. While their ambassadors put on a friendly show, the Admin is amassing a fleet of advanced, heavily armed time machines with SysGov firmly in the crosshairs.
Time is running out for Raibert and his team. But the crew of the Kleio won't go down without a fight, no matter where--or when—the threat to their home comes from.
About prequel The Gordian Protocol:
“Tom Clancy-esque exposition of technical details . . . absurd humor and bloody action. Echoes of Robert Heinlein . . . lots of exploding temporal spaceships and bodies . . . action-packed . . .” —Booklist
“[A] fun and thrilling standalone from Weber and Holo. . . . Time travel enthusiasts will enjoy the moral dilemmas, nonstop action, and crisp writing.”—Publishers Weekly
About David Weber:
“[A] balanced mix of interstellar intrigue, counterespionage, and epic fleet action . . . with all the hard- and software details and tactical proficiency that Weber delivers like no one else; along with a large cast of well-developed, believable characters, giving each clash of fleets emotional weight.”—Booklist
“[M]oves . . . as inexorably as the Star Kingdom’s Grand Fleet, commanded by series protagonist Honor Harrington. . . . Weber is the Tom Clancy of science fiction. . . . His fans will relish this latest installment. . . .”—Publishers Weekly
“This entry is just as exciting as Weber’s initial offering. . . . The result is a fast-paced and action-packed story that follows [our characters] as they move from reaction to command of the situation. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.”—The Galveston County Daily News
“Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel . . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.”—Publishers Weekly
“This latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point . . . . Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.”—Booklist
“[E]verything you could want in a heroine. . . . Excellent . . . plenty of action.”—Science Fiction Age
“Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!”—Anne McCaffrey
“Compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.”—Locus
“Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .”—Publishers Weekly
About Jacob Holo:
"An entertaining sci-fi action novel with light overtones of dystopian and political thrillers."—Kirkus on The Dragons of Jupiter
"Thrilling . . . sci-fi adventure."—Kirkus on Time Reavers
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Published October 6, 2020
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About the author
David Weber
322 books4,548 followersDavid Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.
Many of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into the military science fiction genre. He frequently places female leading characters in what have been traditionally male roles.
One of his most popular and enduring characters is Honor Harrington whose alliterated name is an homage to C.S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower and her last name from a fleet doctor in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander . Her story, together with the "Honorverse" she inhabits, has been developed through 16 novels and six shared-universe anthologies, as of spring 2013 (other works are in production). In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Many of his books are available online, either in their entirety as part of the Baen Free Library or, in the case of more recent books, in the form of sample chapters (typically the first 25-33% of the work).
http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidw...
Many of his stories have military, particularly naval, themes, and fit into the military science fiction genre. He frequently places female leading characters in what have been traditionally male roles.
One of his most popular and enduring characters is Honor Harrington whose alliterated name is an homage to C.S. Forester's character Horatio Hornblower and her last name from a fleet doctor in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander . Her story, together with the "Honorverse" she inhabits, has been developed through 16 novels and six shared-universe anthologies, as of spring 2013 (other works are in production). In 2008, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Many of his books are available online, either in their entirety as part of the Baen Free Library or, in the case of more recent books, in the form of sample chapters (typically the first 25-33% of the work).
http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidw...
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January 11, 2022
I know it is a book about time travel, but here it got too messy too soon. Conflict and situation felt little bit far-fetched and artificial.
January 16, 2021
Entertaining action packed sequel to the Gordian protocol.
If you are like me you'll find the first scene boring, cringeworthy and confusing. The book gets much better afterwards. That scene is obviously meant as a bit of an intro for people who haven't read the first book. IMO that intro fails badly as I had read the previous volume and still found it disorienting. So the point of this paragraph is that you should just keep reading.
I love the stakes in these books. So impossibly ridiculously huge but the authors make it work. Cool.
Not much else to say, a huge fun romp through time and the multiverse.
If you are like me you'll find the first scene boring, cringeworthy and confusing. The book gets much better afterwards. That scene is obviously meant as a bit of an intro for people who haven't read the first book. IMO that intro fails badly as I had read the previous volume and still found it disorienting. So the point of this paragraph is that you should just keep reading.
I love the stakes in these books. So impossibly ridiculously huge but the authors make it work. Cool.
Not much else to say, a huge fun romp through time and the multiverse.
December 1, 2020
A fun sci-fi romp through time and space, there was much to enjoy in this lengthy tome. Reading a book of this length is difficult for me, but I'm glad I pushed through. I'd like to read the previous book as well.
What I liked
The universe this book primarily takes place in - called SysGov - is post-scarcity, moneyless, and very close to being a utopia. We learn just enough about this fascinating place to get a sense of the grandeur and scale of it all.
Another universe, called the Admin, was culturally and technologically different from SysGov. I enjoyed comparing the two universes and their denizens. A moderate spoiler about the relationships between each universe's characters:
The characters were unique. Their interactions felt real and meaningful. I especially enjoyed the married couple's playful banter and would have loved to see them together more. The cast is big, though, and filled with lots of interesting characters, some human, some synthetic.
The action scenes were mostly very entertaining. We get a lot of space combat in time machines.
The plot was a fun, wild ride. It was easy to get sucked into the story.
The epilogue and the final chapter before it were extremely satisfying for me, if a touch bittersweet.
What I was ambivalent about
I did not realize this was a sequel. I picked it up because the cover was intriguing and the idea of time travel sounded fascinating. There isn't a synopsis of the first book. So there were some elements I knew nothing about. The first chapter was a slog - introducing characters and concepts from the previous story. If a book is not going to make it clear that it is a sequel, maybe a synopsis would be a good idea. I try to give a book at least 50 pages, however, and thankfully by chapter two everything felt much smoother.
What I did NOT like
The preponderance of abbreviations [such as AC and DTI and more] combined with the techno-babble [connectome, synthoid] sometimes felt like a lot to keep straight, especially since the book has a huge cast of characters across multiple allegiances. I would have appreciated a glossary.
The book's main weakness is that it gets to be too wordy at times.
What I liked
The universe this book primarily takes place in - called SysGov - is post-scarcity, moneyless, and very close to being a utopia. We learn just enough about this fascinating place to get a sense of the grandeur and scale of it all.
Another universe, called the Admin, was culturally and technologically different from SysGov. I enjoyed comparing the two universes and their denizens. A moderate spoiler about the relationships between each universe's characters:
The characters were unique. Their interactions felt real and meaningful. I especially enjoyed the married couple's playful banter and would have loved to see them together more. The cast is big, though, and filled with lots of interesting characters, some human, some synthetic.
The action scenes were mostly very entertaining. We get a lot of space combat in time machines.
The plot was a fun, wild ride. It was easy to get sucked into the story.
The epilogue and the final chapter before it were extremely satisfying for me, if a touch bittersweet.
What I was ambivalent about
I did not realize this was a sequel. I picked it up because the cover was intriguing and the idea of time travel sounded fascinating. There isn't a synopsis of the first book. So there were some elements I knew nothing about. The first chapter was a slog - introducing characters and concepts from the previous story. If a book is not going to make it clear that it is a sequel, maybe a synopsis would be a good idea. I try to give a book at least 50 pages, however, and thankfully by chapter two everything felt much smoother.
What I did NOT like
The preponderance of abbreviations [such as AC and DTI and more] combined with the techno-babble [connectome, synthoid] sometimes felt like a lot to keep straight, especially since the book has a huge cast of characters across multiple allegiances. I would have appreciated a glossary.
The book's main weakness is that it gets to be too wordy at times.
June 25, 2021
I quite enjoyed the prequel to this - The Gordian Protocol - although it was a bit hard to follow at times but this book is a rambling follow-up with even less believable characters with even less believable motivations.
I tried for about 30 or so pages and then decided that the effort was too much.
Sometimes ideas which are fresh and interesting are good for a single book and not a set of lame follow-ups.
I tried for about 30 or so pages and then decided that the effort was too much.
Sometimes ideas which are fresh and interesting are good for a single book and not a set of lame follow-ups.
April 3, 2023
Time travel books are a worry. Add parallel universes and you have nothing logical to hang on. Go back in time and do something that upsets others, who go back in time to stop that from happening that upsets others who go back in time to stop it….and on it goes. Really? If you add other universes that have time travel and inter-universe travel, then all bets are off! Period. Full stop! ‘Believeable’ novels on time travel are as rare as flying pink elephants.
January 16, 2021
Some moments of classic Weber, but few and far between. Mostly just, "It was ok."
December 26, 2024
David Weber and Jacob Holo write science fiction that goes Doc Smith’s Lensman series one better. Smith only gave us war between galaxies, but Weber and Holo create and destroy universes with abandon.
The style is familiar from other Weber space operas. The time-traveling spaceships would be right at home in an Honor Harington novel:
“Numerous impeller contacts in the near present,” Andover-Chen said. “They’re clustered around Tesseract, too close to parse out individual ships.”
And there is plenty of eyebrow-lifting tech talk:
“It’s not the cleanest math, given that I’m dealing with realspace, temporal, and transdimensional coordinate systems all stacked on top of the other. But I think I’ve identified the overall flow vector.”
Or this:
“So what exactly are we building?” Raibert asked.
“A ‘conical exotic matter shell for high-yield chronoton storage and release,’” Elzbietá quoted.
“Whatever the hell that is,” Raibert grumbled.
What indeed?
I like the idea of resurrecting Samuel Pepys, but he doesn’t sound like himself after a while. It would be better if we got some of the diary’s “naughty bits.”
The Gordian Division series now runs to six volumes, but two are enough for me. Even four-dimensional warfare in the Honor Harrington tradition gets old after 1,200 pages. No matter how many universes get the big bang treatment, I don’t have the energy for another 2,000 pages. 3.5.
The style is familiar from other Weber space operas. The time-traveling spaceships would be right at home in an Honor Harington novel:
“Numerous impeller contacts in the near present,” Andover-Chen said. “They’re clustered around Tesseract, too close to parse out individual ships.”
And there is plenty of eyebrow-lifting tech talk:
“It’s not the cleanest math, given that I’m dealing with realspace, temporal, and transdimensional coordinate systems all stacked on top of the other. But I think I’ve identified the overall flow vector.”
Or this:
“So what exactly are we building?” Raibert asked.
“A ‘conical exotic matter shell for high-yield chronoton storage and release,’” Elzbietá quoted.
“Whatever the hell that is,” Raibert grumbled.
What indeed?
I like the idea of resurrecting Samuel Pepys, but he doesn’t sound like himself after a while. It would be better if we got some of the diary’s “naughty bits.”
The Gordian Division series now runs to six volumes, but two are enough for me. Even four-dimensional warfare in the Honor Harrington tradition gets old after 1,200 pages. No matter how many universes get the big bang treatment, I don’t have the energy for another 2,000 pages. 3.5.
January 20, 2025
David Weber always delivers on the speculative science in his stories. This novel is no exception, though I find the story and characters not up to the outstanding Honor Harrington standard. Nonetheless, a pretty good story and I will read more in this series if given the oppoortunity.
May 10, 2025
A good story but predictable
November 24, 2020
A sci-fi full of spaceships that travel through time and between multiverses. In this adventure, the Kleio crew discovers on one of their voyages that two entire universes have disappeared without explanation. And when they return to the present and their universe, they discover that an old friend stole a ship and went back to the past to try to stop the Justinian plague, one of the greatest pandemics in history, and with that creating another universe and they need to go after it and prevent another universe from being created. In this adventure they have to deal with the disappearance of the universes and the consequences of going back to the past and changing history, which can jeopardize the universe and the present that they know.
It has a lot of action, confrontation and chases with spaceships. It has history. And a lot of science fiction. The terms and explanations of time travel and multiverses are complicated to understand, but they do not hinder the development and understanding of history.
I saw a little inspiration in the classic neuromancer. And of course time travel and the creation of alternative universes, created by changes in the past, reminded me a lot of the stories of Flash and the DC multiverse.
I noticed that they created a relationship of the overuse of resources that led to the destruction of the universe, which is kind of what is happening on our planet.
A good read, I had a lot of fun reading, wanting to know what would come next, full of surprises.
It has a lot of action, confrontation and chases with spaceships. It has history. And a lot of science fiction. The terms and explanations of time travel and multiverses are complicated to understand, but they do not hinder the development and understanding of history.
I saw a little inspiration in the classic neuromancer. And of course time travel and the creation of alternative universes, created by changes in the past, reminded me a lot of the stories of Flash and the DC multiverse.
I noticed that they created a relationship of the overuse of resources that led to the destruction of the universe, which is kind of what is happening on our planet.
A good read, I had a lot of fun reading, wanting to know what would come next, full of surprises.
April 29, 2024
This was a case where I bought this book too early, before I finished volume 1, and then wasn't crazy about the first one but ended up listening to this one anyway. It's pretty much an average action sci-fi book with a lot of fantastical ideas thrown in to try and make it interesting, but ultimately falls flat. Sure there are some interesting ideas about spacecraft that can travel not only in space but through time in combat, but the framework around it and the story are too farfetched. Characters are underdeveloped and one-dimensional, the whole treatment of the past and how people might react is far too simplistic, and the twists and turns and big villain reveal feel like they're out of a cartoon rather than anything sophisticated enough for heavy readers. I wouldn't really recommend this series nor would I continue with any further volumes should they come out - the universe here just isn't really compelling enough.
February 10, 2021
War with time ships is like submarine war only in four dimensions. Jacob Holo and David Weber set up their time war after the tale of The Gordian Protocol (paper) by three people stealing a timeship, and crashing in the sixth century where they aid Justinian (Byzantine Emperor) in curing the black death and then steering the new universe around all the bad events of our past. Unfortunately there’s a sociopath with god-like aspirations. It also doesn’t help that the technology they’re using has already killed two other alternate universes, and the new dominion’s destruction will also destroy our universe. The Valkyrie Protocol (hard from Baen) takes a bit long to get to the fun parts. It’s still worth the read.
April 9, 2023
Trite and depressing
I tried really hard to like this novel. I read book one and loved it and leaped right into book two.
Unfortunately half way through the most unlikeable character from the first book resumes a place of prominence and by the 60 percent mark is rampaging behind the scenes having now lived thousands of years and not learned anything about how his past arrogance caused disaster. Nothing worse than a character who becomes a sad joke, supposedly very intelligent but incapable of learning a single new thing no matter how much time passes. It is bad enough when a new character repeats mistakes as a replacement foil to the main character but to me it was so much worse reusing a now ancient but unchanging bad guy.
I tried really hard to like this novel. I read book one and loved it and leaped right into book two.
Unfortunately half way through the most unlikeable character from the first book resumes a place of prominence and by the 60 percent mark is rampaging behind the scenes having now lived thousands of years and not learned anything about how his past arrogance caused disaster. Nothing worse than a character who becomes a sad joke, supposedly very intelligent but incapable of learning a single new thing no matter how much time passes. It is bad enough when a new character repeats mistakes as a replacement foil to the main character but to me it was so much worse reusing a now ancient but unchanging bad guy.
October 28, 2020
I liked this reasonably well, if not as good as the first one.
February 17, 2022
The prequel, The Gordian Protocol, was originally billed as a stand alone novel and it would have been better to leave it that way. Having largely the same characters as the first book there is basically no character development and most of the characters are limited to a single motivation (e.g., redemption, immortality). The "big bad" is largely a proverbial mustache twirling villain.
Add an extended stay in Byzantium which is much more banal than byzantine. No lessons learned regarding time travel from the first book. The old saying "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." pretty much sums up much that is still wrong about "The Valkyrie Protocol".
Add an extended stay in Byzantium which is much more banal than byzantine. No lessons learned regarding time travel from the first book. The old saying "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." pretty much sums up much that is still wrong about "The Valkyrie Protocol".
October 24, 2020
Good, but not as good as the first
The book was reasonably fast paced and a decent read, but so formulaic that it took a lot of the fun out of it. SPOILER ALERT--- I KNEW that lucius was gonna break bad, and who the HECK would ever trust teodora to do ANYTHING right? I believe she said three times I need to do THIS(whatever this was) and twice it was seriously wrong. Trusting her was not something a intelligent person would do. But it was a very readable book, and ill still read the next one just to see.
The book was reasonably fast paced and a decent read, but so formulaic that it took a lot of the fun out of it. SPOILER ALERT--- I KNEW that lucius was gonna break bad, and who the HECK would ever trust teodora to do ANYTHING right? I believe she said three times I need to do THIS(whatever this was) and twice it was seriously wrong. Trusting her was not something a intelligent person would do. But it was a very readable book, and ill still read the next one just to see.
January 17, 2023
Didn't realize it was a sequel. The first chapter almost made me put the book down. Glad I didn't.
Good action, good characters. I like the worlds, and didn't have too much trouble following the acronyms - almost felt like it was the military or something :)
I didn't like the extended history lesson. A lot of that could have been dumped and certainly should have been shortened. Or maybe more of that could have been made useful somehow. But it just came across as fluff and slowed down the story. I will say though, that Ephraim is one of my favorite characters.
Good action, good characters. I like the worlds, and didn't have too much trouble following the acronyms - almost felt like it was the military or something :)
I didn't like the extended history lesson. A lot of that could have been dumped and certainly should have been shortened. Or maybe more of that could have been made useful somehow. But it just came across as fluff and slowed down the story. I will say though, that Ephraim is one of my favorite characters.
January 19, 2021
Started with #2 instead of #1, so that set me back a bit in terms of the universe and characters.
There is a lot going on here and very quickly, so light on universe building that otherwise could take a few books!
Nice rip roaring battles and developments, although I did not completely understand them all.
Good characters, but, alas, I knew them for such a brief period of time.
Ah, time ...
Seven out of ten.
There is a lot going on here and very quickly, so light on universe building that otherwise could take a few books!
Nice rip roaring battles and developments, although I did not completely understand them all.
Good characters, but, alas, I knew them for such a brief period of time.
Ah, time ...
Seven out of ten.
July 31, 2021
Another great novel by David Weber. Hi characters are real and full of life, ones that your like, ones that you really dislike. The story is gripping and keeps one reading, even though this is a long novel. I especially enjoyed the interesting twist and reveal toward the last quarter of the book. I didn't expect that. It stands alone well, although there is a book in this series before this one. While some of the history might have been missed, it is not really required to enjoy the story.
October 28, 2020
I hadn't read the earlier part of this series but overall I felt that this book can be read as a standalone. Time travelers, new universe , history lessons, space fights all clubbed together in one book and executed very well.
Recommended read, I especially liked the final battle scenes, they were well described and you could feel the battle happening
Recommended read, I especially liked the final battle scenes, they were well described and you could feel the battle happening
October 31, 2020
The Valkyrie Protocol is definitely not your typical time travel story. It is loaded with all kinds of cool futuristic technology; great sci-fi. The momentum builds until I could not read and turn the pages fast enough. You will become invested in this story and each of its characters. I highly recommend it for all readers that like interesting characters and a solid plot.
April 27, 2023
This book was a significant disappointment after the first book in the series. It starts well and ends well, but the middle third or so is neither especially compelling nor particularly important to the plot.
Frankly, that middle part feels almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the book and the book would be the better for reducing it by perhaps 90% of its wordcount.
Frankly, that middle part feels almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the book and the book would be the better for reducing it by perhaps 90% of its wordcount.
November 23, 2020
Very straightforward action-adventure with obvious villains and heroes, but the pace is fast, the writing is fluid, and the plot is strong. If there's a third book in the series, I will probably read it.
October 25, 2021
This book is surprisingly good ! I assume most of the book was written by Jacob Holo and not David Weber who's last few solo books have been downright horrible ! Weber's writing has got increasingly worse and I think he's lost his touch !
December 13, 2021
Solid second entry, in some respects better than the first one.
We have action in the 30th century, in the past in a parallel universe, solid characterization (as usual with David Weber).
Lots of action and enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat.
We have action in the 30th century, in the past in a parallel universe, solid characterization (as usual with David Weber).
Lots of action and enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat.
December 31, 2021
I found the story quite interesting, but unfortunately it advances at an extremely slow pace. Every bit of action is preceded by interminable and exhausting dialogue about how the same action might turn out.
January 21, 2023
love the science of time travel in these books!
sometimes the cursing is too strong ( f-bombs) otherwise would’ve given five stars.
i do admit to skimming some of the parts where they recounted actual Byzantine history; those parts were a little dry.
but very fun plot and science!
sometimes the cursing is too strong ( f-bombs) otherwise would’ve given five stars.
i do admit to skimming some of the parts where they recounted actual Byzantine history; those parts were a little dry.
but very fun plot and science!
May 7, 2024
Some parts of this hurt my brain, with the added dimensions, and I'm curious as to which author is a Star Wars fan, but I enjoyed the book overall :-)
October 24, 2020
It only took me 25 pages to realize that my stab at reading this book number two in a tribology was not the place to start this series.
February 12, 2021
A good romp in the multiverse initially highlighting the rivalry between the SysGov and Admin universes. That soon takes second stage when the Valkyrie emerges.
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